Author: Marcus Tullius Cicero

Publisher: Forgotten Books

Published: 2018-09-26

Total Pages: 706

ISBN-13: 9781396423109

Excerpt from Cicero's Select Orations {promises ...and de'clarations, not to (be wanting to them in offices 10f friendship, °when time or necessity should require. The time, they told me, was now come, when not only their for tunes, but the very being and safety of the whole province was at stake That they had not even their gods to, fly 10 for pro tection; of whose sacred 1mages, their cities, and most august temples had been rifled by the smpiety of Îferree That What ever luxury m voluptuousness, c111elty ln unishing, avarice in extortion, or insolence 111 oppression, coul devise to torment'a people, had by this one praetor, during the space of three years, been inflicted upon them That they therefore requested and conjured me not to disregard their supplications, since, while I was safe, they ought to become suppliants to none. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.